MAINLAND BASKETBALL Volusia/Flagler STATS: The 6-foot-3 senior entered last week averaging 15.9 points per game and boosted that with 26 in a 72-57 victory over Father Lopez and 25 points in an 81-70 loss to DeLand. SIDELINES: Brown was a star receiver for the Bucs' Class 5A championship football team. He has signed with hometown Bethune-Cookman College to play football.

Abner Mares will now defend his World Boxing Council super-bantamweight title even closer to home, with Golden Boy Promotions announcing Thursday that it's moving his title defense against Anselmo Moreno to Staples Center on Nov. 10. "When Top Rank decided Manny Pacquiao would not fight Nov. 10, that's a date we wanted," Golden Boy Chief Executive Richard Schaefer told The Times. "This will be a great card now. " Hawaiian Gardens' Mares (24-0-1, 13 knockouts) was supposed to fight Panama's Moreno (33-1-1, 12 KOs)

MRS. ABNER, 5845 Lake Lizzie Drive, St. Cloud, died Tuesday, Nov. 23. She was an assembler for an electronics company. Born in Cawood, Ky., she moved to St. Cloud from Pompano Beach in 1990. She was a member of First Baptist Church, St. Cloud. Survivors: husband, Eugene; daughter, Carolyn Sue Frerichs, St. Cloud. Fisk Funeral Home, St. Cloud.

Grade and school: This is my second year at Umatilla Elementary School, where I teach students in kindergarten through fourth grade with varying exceptionalities. Education and experience: Bachelor's degree in exceptional education from the University of Central Florida. I'm working on my master's in severe and profound disabilities at UCF. Time teaching: I've been teaching for two years and [previously spent] four years as a substitute teacher. Age: 25. Reason for becoming a teacher: I have always loved working with children, and I love to learn myself.

The musical Li'l Abner, based on the Al Capp comic strip, will be performed Saturday night by Leesburg High School students.The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Leesburg High auditorium.Tickets cost $3.50 for adults and $2 for students. They can be purchased at the door, or reserved by calling 787-8684.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A 57-year-old Daytona Beach man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for the 1998 shooting death of a 32-year-old woman. Leon Leggett Jr. pleaded no contest to the manslaughter of Grace A. Abner at her Daytona Beach apartment in March 1998. Police said Abner had been shot once in the body and once in the face. Officers found Abner dead after getting calls from family members worried that they hadn't seen her in a few days. Abner had been dead about two days before her body was found, police said.

PHILADELPHIA - Two Amish men pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to sell cocaine to fellow members in a case that threw a spotlight on how modern-day problems are encroaching on the sect's simple way of life. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24, could get five to 40 years in prison and up to $2 million fines. No sentencing date was set. The men are not related. Prosecutors said that from 1992 to 1997, the two men bought cocaine from a Philadelphia-area motorcycle gang called the Pagans, then sold the drugs to Amish youth.

A drug investigation involving several agencies culminated Friday with three arrests after several residences and businesses in Daytona Beach were searched.Arrested on federal indictments were Ronald Wade, 36, and Denise D. Abner, both of 623 Marion St.; and Paul Scriven, 30, 1400 N. Nova Road.Wade, Abner and Scriven were charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. They were described by authorities as dealers who bought cocaine from a South Florida source and distributed it in the Volusia area.

PHILADELPHIA - Two Amish men have been accused of buying cocaine from a motorcycle gang called the Pagans and then distributing it to young members of the conservative religious sect. ``Bikes and buggies; it's a rather strange combination,'' Pennsylvania State Police Maj. Robert Werts said of Tuesday's indictment of Abner Stolzfus, 24, and Abner King Stolzfus, 23. Both men are members of the Old Order Amish, the most conservative Amish sect. If convicted of the charges, the men face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

A 32-year-old woman whose body was found in her apartment Tuesday night was shot in her upper torso, police said.Grace A. Abner was found face down on her bedroom floor in a pool of blood at her apartment at 819 South St., police said.Officers were investigating an unrelated call at a nearby apartment when residents flagged them down to report Abner's death. Her mother, Rose, and a cousin, Willie J. Butler, had visited Abner's apartment after not seeing her for a couple of days.``The front door wasn't locked, but it was shut, which is suspicious,'' Butler said Wednesday.

This is Faceoff. Jerry Greene and Mike Bianchi go head-to-head in this battle of opinions. Now, let's drop the puck. . . . Does baseball opening its season tonight take anything away from the tradition of Opening Day? Mike: Hello, Jerome, there's a reason they call it Opening DAY. Opening Day used to be sacred, but just like everything else in sports, it has prostituted itself to television. College basketball games starting at 10 p.m., college football games kicking off at 11 a.m. and now Opening Day has moved to night.

In 1942, the minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. In 1977, the comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington. In 1985, about 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, were killed when a gigantic mudslide buried the city.

MAINLAND BASKETBALL Volusia/Flagler STATS: The 6-foot-3 senior entered last week averaging 15.9 points per game and boosted that with 26 in a 72-57 victory over Father Lopez and 25 points in an 81-70 loss to DeLand. SIDELINES: Brown was a star receiver for the Bucs' Class 5A championship football team. He has signed with hometown Bethune-Cookman College to play football.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Mainland's two-fisted football game plan rarely involves trickery. The Bucs pulverize opponents with an attacking defense and punishing ground game. That finally worked Friday, but first the Bucs (11-1) had to stun visiting Neptune Beach Fletcher (11-2) with a gadget play. Travis Parks scored on a 64-yard double-pass from wideout Abner Brown to tie the game and Mainland dominated the final quarter of a 21-7 win in the Class 5A, Region 1 final at Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium.

HOLLY HILL -- It was about halfway through an hourlong, closed-door union strategy meeting Tuesday afternoon before someone noticed something out of the ordinary. In the back of the Holly Hill police briefing room, atop an interoffice mailbox, sat a tape recorder. About five feet away, another one was sitting on a table. The problem was, police investigators said Thursday, no one asked permission to tape the private meeting, during which Holly Hill police officers were discussing upcoming contract negotiations and the possibility of changing unions.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A 57-year-old Daytona Beach man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for the 1998 shooting death of a 32-year-old woman. Leon Leggett Jr. pleaded no contest to the manslaughter of Grace A. Abner at her Daytona Beach apartment in March 1998. Police said Abner had been shot once in the body and once in the face. Officers found Abner dead after getting calls from family members worried that they hadn't seen her in a few days. Abner had been dead about two days before her body was found, police said.

DAYTONA BEACH - Police and prosecutors made an arrest Thursday in the 1998 shooting death of a 32-year-old Daytona Beach woman. Leon Leggett Jr., 55, of 589 Fremont Ave. was charged with first-degree murder in the March 10, 1998, killing of Grace A. Abner, police said. Leggett had been a prime suspect in the case but investigators previously said they didn't have enough information to arrest him. Tips started coming in last October that helped investigators develop the case. Investigators with the police department and the State Attorney's Office interviewed Leggett on Thursday at work and arrested him at noon.

HOLLY HILL -- It was about halfway through an hourlong, closed-door union strategy meeting Tuesday afternoon before someone noticed something out of the ordinary. In the back of the Holly Hill police briefing room, atop an interoffice mailbox, sat a tape recorder. About five feet away, another one was sitting on a table. The problem was, police investigators said Thursday, no one asked permission to tape the private meeting, during which Holly Hill police officers were discussing upcoming contract negotiations and the possibility of changing unions.

NEW YORK -- Nearly four years after being tortured inside a Brooklyn police station, Abner Louima agreed to settle his lawsuit with the city and its main police union Thursday in exchange for $8.75 million and the promise of Police Department reforms. The agreement was reached behind closed doors in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn after months of false starts and contentious wrangling, particularly over the issue of reforming departmental policies. It is the most money the city has ever paid to settle a police-brutality case and the first time, officials said, that the Patrolman Benevolent Association has ever paid money to settle a claim against it. "Since that day almost four years ago, I have vowed to do everything I can to ensure that the torture and cover-up I suffered will not be inflicted on my children or anyone else's children in the future."